I have just used it and worked on my SMF 2 installation. However there was a bit of guesswork involved so to help others here's what I had to do.

1. the 'path to smf2' must be the relative address. So if wedge is in a subfolder off of your smf install then you need to input ../ (dot dot slash). For me SMF is in public_html and wedge is another folder off the root, and I access wedge using a subdomain. So I had to put ../public_html - the dot dot slash says "take me to the folder above this one." Absolute address works fine :)

2. The importer asks for the wedge database password but it then gave me an error as it wasn't able to read the SMF database. So the other thing I had to do was to give the wedge database user permission to the SMF database.

The above is not intended for techie people who are probably grinding their teeth at such language!

Anyway it worked well and everything seems to have been imported - even an unread message I received today :)

One picky thing: the importer has a readme file with the same name as the main wedge one so when uploading the importer files it'll be overwritten.

And one thing from my specific data conversion is that we have a news item that starts with a center BB tag. The importer brings this in as center] i.e. it misses the open square bracket. This in turn mucks up the layout of the whole board.

I am travelling and this hostel's WiFi is the slowest I have encountered. So maybe there was a stutter when it came to that date due to a bad connection. I'm moving on tomorrow so let's leave it until the evening or the next day and I will re-install and run the importer again. Hopefully their WiFi will be faster!

I am travelling and this hostel's WiFi is the slowest I have encountered. So maybe there was a stutter when it came to that date due to a bad connection. I'm moving on tomorrow so let's leave it until the evening or the next day and I will re-install and run the importer again. Hopefully their WiFi will be faster!

I spoke too soon - this hostel's WiFi is even worse :sob: So I'll try it when I can.

For instance, attachments/p2 in my source folder is trying to be copied to attachments/p2 in the new forum, and it gives me an error message saying it doesn't exist.

I've given up on this, and committed my current work (i.e. the MySQLi conversion for Lorenzo), but feel free to give it another try. In the meantime, all I can say is: it looks like the new version is working. Phew... ;)